This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time from 202 BC to AD 9 and from AD 25 to 189, analysing and describing the central an...(展开全部)

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Written by a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully revised sixth edition, offering extensive, well documented comparative analysis of the effects of politics on bureaucracy. New to the 6th edition: More international case studies on North America, Western and Ea...(展开全部)

B·盖伊·彼得斯，美国宾西法尼亚州匹兹堡大学政治科学系教授、主任，香港大学名誉教授。其研究方向为比较政治学、公共政策与公共行政等，其代表著作除本书外还有《政府未来的治理模式》、《当代政府与政治》、《比较政治的理论与方法》、《公共政策的病态》、《政府会消亡吗？》等。

《剑桥中国秦汉史》（1986年出版，1992年出版中译本）第三章《王莽，汉之中兴，后汉》由毕汉思执笔，主要应用了他自己《汉代的中兴》四卷本（Hans Bielenstein《The Restoration of the Han Dynasty, with Prolegomena on the Historiography of the Hou Han Shu》）的成果，四卷本分别出版于1954，1959，1967，1979，其中第一卷由博士论文改编而成，主要分两大部分，第一部分是对东汉史料的梳理；第二部分切入正题，从王莽改革说起，共分七章，分别是王莽改制、早期叛乱、南阳起事、新市平林下江军、赤眉、王莽败亡，汉代中兴。第四卷实际分成两本书，一是先于1976年出版的《东汉的洛阳》，二是被收入《剑桥文史丛刊》，出版于1980年的《汉代官僚制度》（《The ...(展开全部)

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century. The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and co...(展开全部)